Mark Mazur

Robert C. Pozen Director

Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

Mark Mazur is the Robert C. Pozen director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Previously, Mazur was the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury. Mazur’s 25 years of public service includes stints at the Internal Revenue Service, where he was director of the Office of Research, Analysis, and Statistics; the US Department of Energy, where he was a senior advisor to Secretary Bill Richardson and Secretary Federico Pena and Acting Administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration; the Joint Committee on Taxation, the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and the President’s National Economic Council. Mazur received a BA in financial administration from Michigan State University and a PhD in economics, business, and public policy from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.